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Peter LeClair

Guest on the jazz history podcast The New Jazz Archive, appearing on its Frank Zappa tribute episode hosted by Jeff Haas.

Oct 27, 2026

52:52
What was your philosophy in choosing the music for the students to work on?
52:56
Well, we definitely kept that in mind.
52:58
There's two sides to what we say at our school.
53:00
One of them is that we don't so much believe in censorship, but at the same time, we recognize that there are fine lines that we can't cross.
53:08
But as Josh mentioned too, that 70s era, we felt like was pretty safe.
53:15
We picked material that was lyrically much safer.
53:19
I think that The farthest stretch that we had in our show was the Yellow Snow Suite, which for the most part is just, you know, good quality younger kid humor.
55:41
Do you mix some of the biographical info about Zappa into your teaching?

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